Blogs - Useful, or useless?

You’ve had a bad day. Your coffee was cold, work was a drag and your other half is complaining after you forgot to let the cat out this morning as promised. But why worry?The day’s concerns will be washed away once you sit down at your Mac and write up theday in your beloved blog.

That’s right, folks. Those websites we can seemingly no longer get away from have become “therapy” for the average American. Informative? No. Egotistical, pretentious and self-absorbed? You bet.

Twelve million American adults keep a blog, according to a 2007 report by Pew Internet.The report also showed that 37% of these bloggers citied “my life” as the primary topic. Trailing miserably in second place with 11%, came Government and Politics. Although the blogging community is huge and people writing their own online diary is growing, only 27% of internet users actually read any other blogs.

So, who actually cares about your life? The sad truth is people have become so concernedwith jotting down every moment of their being within these spaces, that they’re no longer interested in reading about anyone or anything else.

I could go on about how the blogging community is destroying print media, but I wont;As technology expands it is clear to see why online information would be taken advantage of and a decline is inevitable. But will the blog ever take over the real news of the world?

Of course not, because while blogs are written continuously, no-one cares about any but their own. And occasionally everyone needs a newspaper, when your homepage is down,to see how the rest of the world is doing.